Wednesday, September 10, 2014

The Butler did it!

"The Butler did it!" It was Elimination
Day – the day a loss would officially eliminate the last-place Red Sox from
postseason possibilities. And the first-place Orioles jumped out to an 8-0 lead
though five. In fact, Bruce Chen has a no-hitter going. The redeeming Red Sox
moment in the game came when catcher Dan Butler (0-for-11 prior to the game)
connected for his first big-league base hit –a double – in the bottom of the
sixth. Butler doubled again in the eighth, and singled in the ninth. In the
bottom of the ninth, Carlos Rivero hit his first major-league home run, a three-run
homer. Final score? after a five-run bottom of the ninth: 10-6.

About Me

Why another blog? Why another site that will largely be Red Sox-oriented?
Quite a few of my books are out of print. This blog should help keep them available.
I still keep active writing and editing books and brief biographies for SABR (Society for American Baseball Research), and have written over 350 bios of Red Sox players. They’re available on the SABR site, and through Retrosheet.org and Baseball-Reference.com, but this site lets me group them all together in a way that features the Red Sox bios.
The Red Sox themselves have been very generous with access to the park, to games, and to historical photographs, and even hired me as a consultant to help with the planning for the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park and to write much of the material for the Fenway 100 website.
If this site is successful – both the blog and the building historical record – it should encourage me to continue to add material on an ongoing basis. That’s how I’ll measure the success of the site: is it something that will keep me contributing?